Senior Java Engineer

Our client is an innovative company that helps students apply to college. Their technology converts students’ applications into a standardized format to speed up and streamline the university application process across different colleges and universities.

• 5+ years of commercial experience with  Java
• Very high proficiency with server-side Enterprise Java (8 + versions and its features like Steam API, Lambda expressions, Functional interfaces and Method references etc.), Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
• At least 2-3 years project implementation experience in one or more Spring framework modules – Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Integration frameworks.
• Experience in developing RESTful API and Web Services.
• Solid JPA development and SQL query writing skills.
• Experience with the core AWS services.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Strong Knowledge in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and the ELK stack.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IAC) using CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Past experience with the serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is a plus. For example, the Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM).
• Strong working knowledge of Git and GitHub code management tools.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft SQL and any one of no-SQL databases, such as Mongo DB
• Experience with Test Driven Development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Design and develop enterprise grade, high-volume web applications, platforms, and state of the art technical solutions leveraging Java and JEE platform technologies.
• Participate in design discussions and solution design sessions with product management and software development teams to shape new product features and platform capabilities.
• Develop and support REST APIs and business logic using Java, Spring, Hibernate and SQL Server.
• Contribute to the evaluation, prototyping, and selection of software solutions as required to make recommendations to enhance performance and scalability of our flagship products.
• Make recommendations to enhance performance and scalability of our flagship products.
• Apply Test Driven Development practices and software quality measurement tools such as SonarQube or Coverity to improve quality of software delivered.
• Foster and support a culture of innovation and excellence in the engineering organization.
• Understanding the Implementation of the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS CI/CD stack.